Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
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I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.
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If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
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The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
